By Adedeji Ademigbujion Cross River State Carnival Commission, the agency which oversees the Calabar Carnival, has announced Okhma Global Limited, a marketing consulting firm based in Lagos, as lead marketing company for the carnival. Its responsibilities include, to increase the fund by more than 80 percent of the current revenue from marketing, and also provide
PREAMBLE: To “bite the bullet” is to endure a painful or otherwise unpleasant situation that is seen as unavoidable. This phrase is believed to have derived historically from the practice of having a patient clench a bullet in his or her teeth as a way to cope with the extreme pain of a surgical procedure
By Our Reporter The Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON), Cross River State office has raided and confiscated unspecified number of expired and substandard products ranging from vehicle tires, packaged food items as well as electric wires in Calabar, the State capital. The streets affected by the ongoing raid for substandard products are Bedwell, Nelson Mandela,
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Director General, Cross River State Signage and Advertisement Agency, CRISSAA Mr. Stanley Nsemo-Livingstone has disclosed that his agency will soon launch Calabar Creative Hub, an idea creation and birth center project. Speaking with CrossRiverWatch he explained that “Calabar Creative Hub is a limited liability company, its Bureau of Public Private Partnership
By Paulyne Eba and Ojong Agbor The State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has expressed worries over the inability of the local content Act of 2010 to fully actualize the objectives for which it was enacted. The Governor made this remarks while declaring open a 3-day stakeholders interactive workshop holding at the Calabar International Convention Centre
By Paulyne Eba and Ojong Agbor The Cross River State Government is more determined to work closely with the management of the Calabar Export Free Trade Zone (CFTZ) on how best to enforce compliance to its statutory internally generated revenue charges on operations in the trade zone. Speaking while addressing the management of the CFTZ
By CrossRiverWatch admin To boost the economy of Cross River State, the Management of Tinapa Business Resort and the Cliqit, an e-commerce business management and development platform, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to organize the ‘world largest Trade Fair’ in Calabar, the state capital. The Trade Fair, where not less than 10,000 vendors
The third treatise in our series on potentials of the creative industry for creating jobs and contributing to the development of our economy is focused on visual art industry. Earlier, we had taken a look at the film industry and the music industry. This promises to be as enlightening as the first and the second.